First comes the idea and then slowly the full comprehension of the idea, comes realization, and with that realization will come a kindling anger at the vulgarity, the meanness, the greed and baseness and utter stupidity that refuses to attend to this clear voice, this definite demand of our racial [= of mankind’s] necessity.

To-day we teach, but as understanding grows we must begin to act.

We must put ourselves and our rulers and our fellow men on trial. We must ask: “What have you done, and what are you doing to help or hinder the peace and order of mankind?”

A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.

The service of the world-state calls for much more than passive resistance to belligerent authorities, for much more than exemplary martyrdoms.

It calls for the greater effort of active interference with mischievous men.

“I will believe in the League of Nations,” one man has written, “when men will fight for it.”

For this League of Nations at Geneva, this little corner of Balfourian jobs and gentility, no man would dream of fighting, but

for the great state of mankind, men will presently be very ready to fight and, as the thing may go, either to kill or die.

Things must come in their order;

first the idea,

then the kindling of imaginations,

then the world-wide battle.

We who live in the bleak days after a great crisis [World War I], need be no more discouraged by the apparent indifference of the present time than are fields that are ploughed and sown by the wet days of February and the cold indifference of the winds of early March.

The ploughing has been done, and the seed is in the ground, and the world-state stirs in a multitude of germinating minds.

The executive branch coup against America has succeeded. The question is: will it stand?

Today, the executive branch consists of liars, criminals, and traitors.

The evil on earth seems concentrated in Washington.

Washington’s response to Edward Snowden’s evidence that Washington, in total contravention of law both domestic and international, is spying on the entire world has demonstrated to every country that Washington places the pleasure of revenge above law and human rights.

On Washington’s orders, its European puppet states refused overflight permission to the Bolivian presidential airliner carrying President Morales and forced the airliner to land in Austria and be searched. Washington thought that Edward Snowden might be aboard the airliner. Capturing Snowden was more important to Washington than respect for international law and diplomatic immunity.

How long before Washington orders its UK puppet to send in a SWAT team to drag Julian Assange from the Ecuadoran embassy in London and hand him over to the CIA for waterboarding?

On July 12 Snowden met in the Moscow airport with human rights organizations from around the world.

He stated that the illegal exercise of power by Washington prevents him from traveling to any of the three Latin American countries who have offered him asylum. Therefore, Snowden said that he accepted Russian President Putin’s conditions and requested asylum in Russia.

Insouciant americans and the young unaware of the past don’t know what this means. During my professional life it was Soviet Russia that persecuted truth tellers, while America gave them asylum and tried to protect them.

Today it is Washington that persecutes those who speak the truth, and it is Russia that protects them.

The American public has not, this time, fallen for Washington’s lie that Snowden is a traitor. The polls show that a majority of Americans see Snowden as a whistleblower.

It is not the US that is damaged by Snowden’ revelations. It is the criminal elements in the US government that have pulled off a coup against democracy, the Constitution, and the American people who are damaged. It is the criminals who have seized power, not the American people, who are demanding Snowden’s scalp.